News Items tag as: Bath salts in the Okanagan

West Kelowna woman sentenced for helping import 15 kg of 'bath salts' drug from China
April 19, 2016 - 4:22 PM

KELOWNA – A West Kelowna woman broke down and cried when she was sentenced to four years in jail for her part in importing 15 kg of methylone, a drug known more commonly as 'bath salts,' from China in 2013.
Kelowna woman guilty of possessing 15 kg of bath salts drug imported from China
November 13, 2015 - 5:00 PM

KELOWNA – A West Kelowna woman has been found guilty of possessing 15 kg of a new synthetic drug she received in the mail from China.
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No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
A Kelowna brewery successfully avoided a fine for selling beer to an undercover minor, but it did fire the employee. The province's liquor regulator decided against handing down a $7,000 fine after an 18-year-old bought a six-pack from

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way for development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

West Kelowna woman sentenced for helping import 15 kg of 'bath salts' drug from China